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Rina Sawayama drops sophomore album 'Hold The Girl' via Dirty Hit

Published Sep 17, 2022 08:20 pm
Rina Sawayama

British-Japanese pop sensation Rina Sawayama released her highly-anticipated sophomore album Hold The Girl via Dirty Hit. The album arrives on the heels of "Hurricanes," the final, anthemic offering, which dropped earlier this week as BBC 1's Hottest Record to ring in the new album.

Across the 13-tracks of Hold The Girl, Rina showcases her talent for bending huge chart influences and blockbuster melodies to her will with precision-tuned songwriting and powerful vocals.

Hold The Girl features the aforementioned single "Hurricanes," along with the previously released songs "Phantom," "This Hell," which debuted with a performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "Catch Me In The Air" and the title track "Hold The Girl", which came with an Ali Kurr-directed video. Additionally, Rina has recently graced the covers of V Magazine, The Guardian Film & Music, Music Week, and Who What Wear, where she discusses her rising pop stardom.

In October Rina will embark on her UK and Ireland tour, where multiple dates are already or nearly sold out, like her O2 Brixton Academy date, marking a legendary moment in the pop star's career. This week Rina played a limited capacity intimate show with Banquet Records, Kingston and will play another intimate show at London’s Village Underground on Sept. 18. Tickets are on sale now HERE.


Hold The Girl follows Rina's critically acclaimed debut SAWAYAMA and will see Rina once again juxtapose intimate storytelling with arena-sized songs creating another ambitious and original album to excite fans and critics alike. Written and recorded over the last ​​year and a half, Rina teamed up with long-term collaborators Clarence Clarity and Lauren Aquilina as well as enlisting help from the likes of the legendary Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence & the Machine), Stuart Price (Dua Lipa, The Killers, Madonna) and Marcus Andersson (Demi Lovato, Ashnikko) for their magic touch. The product of Rina and these collective minds coming together is an album that melds influences from across the pop spectrum and is a bold and honest statement of Rina’s personal evolution; coming to terms with her own past and the jubilation of turning to the future.

In 2020, Rina’s debut album SAWAYAMA became one of the most critically acclaimed albums that year landing on over 50 album of the year lists, including the New York Times (#2), The Guardian (#3) and Rolling Stone (#6). The last 18 months have seen Rina Sawayama achieve a magnitude of milestones including changing the Mercury Prize and BRITs eligibility rules which meant Non-British artists could apply if they have been a permanent resident in the UK for more than 5 years.

In 2021 Elton John joined forces with the pop star to release a special rendition of “Chosen Family," a powerful and emotional ode to her LGBTQ+ family. Elsewhere Rina injected new life into Lady Gaga’s instant club classic “Free Woman.” 2023 will see Rina in her film acting debut as she stars in John Wick 4 alongside Keanu Reeves.

Hold The Girl
Rina Sawayama
Sept. 16, 2022
Dirty Hit

1. Minor Feelings
2. Hold The Girl
3. This Hell
4. Catch Me In The Air
5. Forgiveness
6. Holy (Til You Let Me Go)
7. Your Age
8. Imagining
9. Frankenstein
10. Hurricanes
11. Send My Love To John
12. Phantom
13. To Be Alive


 

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